Posted on 04/29/2005 5:08:19 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
..........Allow me to point out that "the right" not only indulges in jarring invective but also has adopted very disturbing polemical techniques.
For several years, its writers have engaged in discrediting their opponents by quoting them. Yes, they simply hurl back into a person's face things the person has said, without any regard as to how this cruel quoting coarsens our society.
........ A year after I was scorned for publishing stories revealing Bill Clinton has an eye for the ladies (and other parts of his anatomy for the ladies as well), it became apparent I was right. Other writers had just published the same findings. The Wall Street Journal's David Brooks asked me if I would like to "gloat" about this subsequent vindication.
.......... treacherous quoting of innocent liberals has become a staple of the American right. Rush Limbaugh does it every weekday and so does Sean Hannity. Every year the Media Research Center holds a huge dinner... devoted to ridiculing media members for things they said over the past year -- and uses videotape. MRC spends the year taping network news and then plays select tapes back during dinner. They give awards for the stupidest quotations. Naturally this year Dan Rather won.
Hundreds of conservatives turn out for the MRC awards dinner every year and have a very jolly time. I must admit I went this year and enjoyed myself immensely. Ann Coulter was on the program and Mr. Hannity. Boone Pickens and Zell Miller stole the show, though Swift Boat hero John O'Neill was superb. All in all it is a very amusing -- if treacherous -- evening. Curiously, it is never reported by major media. Maybe they are waiting for Al Franken to hold an amusing dinner. It will be a long wait.
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
This sounds as though it comes from a "Neanderthal"!
he he he he.
Whole article is a must read.
Franken is afraid to hold a dinner...after all, who would want to foot the catering tab if Michael Moore showed up?!
Yes, we'll keep a good ear out for the Shrillary
Thanks!
Bump! And lol at the article, very nicely done.
Ann Coulter often comments (paraphrasing) that the Left acts like Nexis-Lexis doesn't exist.
Good article! I may have to read his book, too.
Bump for later reading!
OH THE HUGH MANITEE!
Shalom.
Hell will freeze over first!
Personally...I look forward to the Houston Comical circulation figures and wonder when a real investigation into their inflated, although declining figures will occur...
Did you read the whole thing, or just couldn't see the satire?
I suppose an uber-Freeper named "Cultural Jihad" is cited by Tyrrell as well? (heh-heh...)
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